About a month ago I attended Hanson-Wade’s “Crispr Congress” in Boston. This was their third such event, and I’ve attended all three of them. Below, a very quick report on what I saw and learned there.

I’m running a promotion today to widely publicize that my little illustrated novella, The Pains is available as a free ebook. That is to say, I’m spending good money to make it known that this book is free. Never mind the words that I wrote for this book; the illustrations alone …

My little illustrated dystopian phantasmagoria The Pains is now available on Amazon, Apple and all the other usual suspects as a free ebook download. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002ACNYFY/… This book has been around since late 2008 and has never really found much of an audience. But I’m still really proud of it. It’s …

Recently I was invited to give a talk at the SynbioBeta Activate! Edinburgh synthetic biology conference. This post is based on my remarks there. I began my talk with a short account of a survivor of the Clydebank Blitz in the early days of World War Two. My intention was …

Here’s a few recent things about me, me, me. Interviewed by John Biggs at the TechCrunch “Disrupt” even in Brooklyn a few months ago. Preview of my talk at SynbioBeta conference in Scotland, July 7. Interviewed again by TechCrunch’s John Biggs in a podcast. Stay tuned for some less me-focused …

(About the picture: I’m a volunteer firefighter in Tisbury, MA, assigned to an aerial platform truck. When George visited Martha’s Vineyard to give a talk at the local library I got permission to take him up in the bucket. He wore my lieutenant’s safety gear.) In March of 2015, George …

It’s been about 9 days since I released my half-new novel Biodigital via Unglue.it’s “buy to unglue” program under which books are put Creative Commons and made available for free download after a sales target (or default date) has been reached. My books Acts of the Apostles, Cheap Complex Devices and The …

Today (thanks to the kind & abiding Gary Gray, who stepped in once again when I was foundering & dithering) we launch this-a-here website, just in time to accompany the release of my half-new novel Biodigital & the announcement of the “thanks for ungluing” facility on Unglue.it. The site is …